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UN Geneva's Role in Disarmament Efforts

Disarmament and non-proliferation are essential for creating a secure environment conducive to human development, with UN Geneva serving as a key diplomatic hub for these efforts. The Conference on Disarmament, established in 1979, is the primary multilateral forum for negotiating disarmament, focusing on issues such as nuclear disarmament and preventing an arms race in outer space. Additionally, the UNIDIR conducts research on disarmament-related questions, including the implications of nuclear energy and artificial intelligence in conflict.

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UN Geneva's Role in Disarmament Efforts

Disarmament and non-proliferation are essential for creating a secure environment conducive to human development, with UN Geneva serving as a key diplomatic hub for these efforts. The Conference on Disarmament, established in 1979, is the primary multilateral forum for negotiating disarmament, focusing on issues such as nuclear disarmament and preventing an arms race in outer space. Additionally, the UNIDIR conducts research on disarmament-related questions, including the implications of nuclear energy and artificial intelligence in conflict.

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Disarmament

Disarmament and non-proliferation remain indispensable tools to create a security environment


favorable to ensuring human development, as enshrined in the UN Charter. UN Geneva is a center
venue for international diplomacy in this field. It is home to the Conference on Disarmament, the
forum for Member States, to negotiate respective disarmament efforts.
UN Geneva also supports, through the Geneva Branch of the Office for Disarmament Affairs, a
range of multilateral disarmament agreements and disarmament-related conferences. In addition,
the Geneva office hosts fellow from Member States to increase knowledge about disarmament
inside national governments.
The Conference on Disarmament
The Conference on Disarmament was established in 1979 as the single multilateral disarmament
negotiating forum of the international community. The current Director-General of UN Geneva,
Tatiana Valovaya, is also the Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament as well as the
Personal Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Conference.
During their meetings, happening three times a year, the Conference’s 65 Member States
currently focus on the following topics:
 cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament
 prevention of nuclear war, including all related matters
 prevention of an arms race in outer space
 effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use
or threat of use of nuclear weapons
 new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons; radiological
weapons
 comprehensive programme of disarmament
 transparency in armaments
A wide shot of the conference room where participants of the Conference on Disarmament are
currently listening to a speaker on screen.
Watch the video: Disarmament in the 21st Century
[Link]
Disarmament research
The UN-internal knowledge base for questions on disarmament is largely built by the Geneva-
based United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR):
 How can we use nuclear energies while reducing the risk of use of nuclear weapons?
 What role does artificial intelligence play in conflict and wars, what role could it potentially
play in disarmament?
 What security implications come with our increasing exploration and use of space?

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